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Jan. 19 1926. 1,569,889

W. L. SIEWERS LADY S UNDERGARMENT Filed July 1924 Patented Jan. 19,1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER L. SIEWERS, 0F WINSTON-SALEM, NORTH CAROLINA, ASSIGNOR TO THEMALINE MILLS COMPANY, OF 'WTNSTONSALEM, NOR-TH CAROLINA, A

TION OF NORTH CAROLINA.

CURPORA- LADY??? UNDERGARMELN '1.

Application filed July 12,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lVninua l). Snnvnns, citizen of the Unite-d States,residing at lVinston-balem, in the conniy of Forsyth and State of NorthCarolina, have inveuitod certain new and useful improreinents in. LadiesUndergarments; and I do hereby declare the following to he a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention relates to ladies under garments, and has for its objectto provide a garment which will be constrticted without waste ofmaterial as regards the main body of the garment. The main body of thegarment is formed from a tubular mei'nberof substantially the samedian'ieter tin-oughout, and the same is slit in the middle at the frontand back from the bottom thereof for a short distance thereabove, and isadapted to have a pair of connected pentagonal shaped gussets insertedin the slit and sewed therein to give the necessary width at the bottomof the garment to con stitute the leg portions thereof.

The various novel features of the invention will appear from the detaildescription of the invention taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings forming a part of this specification. V

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved garmentshowing the pair of pentagonal shaped gussets in position therein.

Figure 2 is a rear elevation of my im proved garment showing thepentagonal shaped gussets in position therein showing the pointed endsof the same extending upwardly to a higher point at the rear than at thefront of the garment.

Figure 3 is a plan View of a pair of pentagonal shaped guss-ets used inmy improved garment.

V Figure 4 is a plan view of a single pentagonal shaped gusset used inmy improved garment; and,

Figure 5 is a plan view of a slight modification of the pentagonalshaped gusset showing the same provided with a deeper notch.

Like characters of reference are used throughout the followingspecification and 1924-. Serial No. 725,707.

the accompanying drawings to designate cor responding parts.

The garment is formed of a knitted tubular member of substantiallyuniform diameter throughout the length of the same, and constitutes abody portion 1 which has the conventional shoulder straps 2 attached tothe upper portion thereof, and has the usual draw string 3 at the top ofthe gar ment.

The tubular body portion 1 is slit in the middle at the front and backfrom the bottom thereof for a short distance thereabove, the slit at theback of the body portion be ing extended up a slight distance above theslit at the front of the garment. My improved form of gusset comprises apair of pei'itagonal shaped pieces of material 4 which are concavelynotched as at Two pieces of the material 4: will be sewed together at 6with the notched portions of each piece adjacent each other, so that thecompleted gusset 7 will be formed as illustrated in Figure 3 of thedrawings. The gusset 7 will be inserted in the slit formed at the bottomof the tubular body 1remloer l and the pointed end 8 of the gusset willbe sewed at the apex of the slit at the back of the garment while thepoint 9 will be sewed at the apex of the slit at the forward part of thegarment, while the adjacent sides of the gusset are sewed to theadjacent portions of the body member so that there will be considerablymore room at the back of the leg portions than at the forward partthereof.

A modification of the gusset material is shown in Figure 5 and isdesignated at 10, and is provided with a deeper notch ll so thatadditional room may be had in the leg portions of the garment.

From the foregoing description it will be apparent that the pieces ofmaterial forming the gusset of the garment will form the inner oradjacent portions of the leg portions of the garment, and as beforementioned provides a larger space at the back of the garment than at thefront thereof.

The garment made in accordance with this invention can be readilymanufactured at a minimum cost since it is merely necessary to slit thetube or body 1 and insert the pentagonal shaped gusset into the slits toprovide the necessary and desired Width at the bottom of the garment.

Many minor changes in detail of construction may be resorted to withoutdeparture from the spirit of the invention.

1 claim In combination With a tubular bifurcated nether garment slit inthe middle, at the front and back, from the bottom thereof for a shortdistance thereabove, a substantially pentagonal crotch insert. composedof a pair of pentagonal elements, each of said elements having are-entrant angle, such elements being stitched together along the edgesforming the re-entrant angle, thereby causing the resultant insert to beof substantially pentagonal shape and Warped so as to conform to thecontour of the body adjacent the crotch, the seam produced by stitchingsuch elements together running from front to back of the garmenttransversely of the crotch, the insert being'free from seams verticallyof the legs, the insert extending at a relatively high point at the backof the garment to constitute a seat for the same, and the elements ofsuch insert extending to the bottom of the leg portions of the garmentand forming complementary parts thereof.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

WALTER L. SIEWERS.

